"reductionism" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: reductionisms [plural]
Etymology: reduction + -ism Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|reduction|ism}} reduction + -ism Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} reductionism (countable and uncountable, plural reductionisms)
  1. An approach to studying complex systems or ideas by reducing them to a set of simpler components. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Systems theory Translations (approach of studying complex systems): redukcionismus [masculine] (Czech), reduktionismi (Finnish), réductionnisme [masculine] (French), reduksionisme (Indonesian)
    Sense id: en-reductionism-en-noun-BfZzN27X Disambiguation of Systems theory: 50 50 Disambiguation of 'approach of studying complex systems': 74 26
  2. (philosophy) A philosophical position which holds that a complex system is nothing but the sum of its parts, and that an account of it can be reduced to accounts of individual constituents. In a reductionist framework, the phenomena that can be explained completely in terms of relations between other more fundamental phenomena, are called "epiphenomena". Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Philosophy, Systems theory Translations ((philosophy) theory holding that complex systems can be reduced to simpler components): ռեդուկցիոնիզմ (ṙedukcʻionizm) (Armenian), reduktionismi (Finnish), réductionnisme [masculine] (French), reduksionisme (Indonesian)
    Sense id: en-reductionism-en-noun-6QrUrT-X Disambiguation of Systems theory: 50 50 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -ism Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 28 72 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 41 59 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ism: 22 78 Topics: human-sciences, philosophy, sciences Disambiguation of '(philosophy) theory holding that complex systems can be reduced to simpler components': 38 62
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: reductionist, reductivism, holism

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